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...Johnson's Skyline High School track coach, Joel Ezar, recalls, "He came to me in his junior year, and he looked more like a Rhodes scholar than a track athlete. He had horn-rimmed glasses and a briefcase and a tie. After he won a few races, I asked one of the kids, 'Who was that?' He said, 'That's Michael.' And I said, 'Michael who?' That's when I started to look closely at this nerdy kid." That sort of characterization does not sit particularly well with Johnson, who says, "Coach Ezar always makes too much of that nerd...
...Koppel, the show's masterly anchorman, is certainly entitled to toot his own horn, and Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television, which he has co-authored with former Nightline producer Kyle Gibson (Times Books; 477 pages; $25), has its self-indulgent excesses. It is essentially a scrapbook of the show's milestones, major interviews, bookers' war stories and amusing anecdotes, which can dribble on like one of those endless Nightline "town meetings...
...Begun as a late-night news show that was only supposed to last for the duration of the Iran hostage crisis, Nightline has become, 16 years later, the most important news broadcast on American television. Ted Koppel, the show's masterly anchorman, is certainly entitled to toot his own horn, and 'Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television,' which he has co-authored with former Nightline producer Kyle Gibson (Times Books; 477 pages; $25), has its self-indulgent excesses. It is essentially a scrapbook of the show's milestones, major interviews, bookers' war stories and amusing anecdotes...
Head Coach: Mike Horn...
...Maready, a trial lawyer whose challenge to the practice was turned back by the North Carolina supreme court last month, is hardly alone in attacking the use of taxpayer funds in the relocation sweepstakes. "We're spending billions of dollars to fund the moving van," says state senator Charles Horn of Ohio, which trucked more than $2.4 billion last year to lure or keep companies in industries ranging from banking to steel. "In the process, we're draining our budgets in education, research and technology--the very things our future depends...